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Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians one Paul An Apostle of Christ

Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother

to the Church of God that is at Corinth, with

all the saints who are in the whole of a Chaah.

Grace to you and peace from God, our Father and

the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father

of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and

God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction,

so that we may be able to comfort those who

are in any affliction with the comfort with which we

ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly

in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ, we share abundantly and

comfort too.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation.

And if we are comforted, it is for your comfort

which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings

that we suffer.

Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that

as you share in our sufferings, you will also share

in our comfort.

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers

of the affliction we experienced in Asia, for we were

so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of

life itself. Indeed, we felt that we had received the

sentence of death. But that was to make us rely

not on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.

He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he

will deliver us. On him we have set our hope

that He will deliver us again. You also must help

us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on

our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers

of many.

For our boast.

Is this the testimony of our conscience that we behaved

in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by

earthly wisdom, but by the grace of God, and supremely

so toward you, For we are not writing to you

anything other than what you read and acknowledge. And I

hope you will fully acknowledge, just as you did partially

acknowledge us, that on the day of our Lord Jesus,

you will boast of us as we will boast of you.

Because I was sure of this, I wanted to come

to you first so that you might have a second

experience of grace. I wanted to visit you on my

way to Macedonia, and to come back to you from Macedonia,

and have you send me on my way to Judea.

Was I vacillating when I wanted to do this? Do

I make my plans according to the flesh, ready to

say yes, yes and no no at the same time,

as surely as God is faithful, our word to you

has not been yes and no. For the son of God,

Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you Sylvanus and Timothy.

And I was not yes and no. But in Him

it is always yes.

For all the promises of God find there yes in him.

That is why it is through him that we utter

our amen to God for his glory.

And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ,

and has anointed us, and who has also put his

seal on us and given us his spirit in our

hearts as a guarantee.

But I call God to witness against me. It was

to spare you that I refrained from coming again to

Corinth not that we lord it over your faith. But

we work with you for your joy, for you stand

firm in your faith. Second Corinthians two. For I made

up my mind not to make another painful visit to you.

For if I cause you pain, who is there to

make me glad but the one whom I have pained.

And I wrote as I did, so that when I came,

I might not suffer pain from those who should have

made me rejoice. For I felt sure of all of

you that my joy would be the joy of you all.

For I wrote to you out of much affliction and

anguish of heart, and with many tears, not to cause

you pain, but to let you know the abundant love

that I have for you. Now, if anyone has caused pain,

he has caused it not to me, but in some measure,

not to put it.

Too severely to all of you. For such a.

One this punishment by the majority is enough. So you

should rather turn to forgive and comfort him. Or he

may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. So I beg you

to reaffirm your love for him. For this is why

I wrote that I might test you and know whether

you are obedient. And everything anyone whom you forgive, I

also forgive. Indeed what I have forgiven. If I have

forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence

of Christ. So that we would not be outwitted by Satan,

for we are not ignorant.

Of his designs.

When I came to Troaz to preach the Gospel of Christ,

even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,

my spirit was not at rest because I did not

find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of

them and went on to Macedonia.

But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads

us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance

of the knowledge of Him everywhere. For we are the

aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved,

and among those who are perishing, to one of fragrance

from death to death, to the other, a fragrance from

life to life. Who is sufficient for these things, For

we are not like so many peddlers of God's word,

but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God in

the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

Tewod Corinthians three. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again?

Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation

to you or from you? You yourselves are our letter of recommendation,

written on our hearts, to be known and read by

all and you show that you are a letter from

Christ delivered by Us, written not with ink, but with

the spirit of the Living God, not on tablets of stone,

but on tablets of human hearts.

Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything

is coming from us, But our sufficiency is from God,

who has made us competent to be ministers of a

new Covenant. Not of the letter, but of the Spirit.

For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Now, if the ministry of death, carved in letters on

stone came with such glory that the Israelites could not

gaze at Moses's face because of its glory, which was

being brought to an end, will not the ministry of

the Spirit have even more glory.

For if there was glory in.

The ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far.

Exceed it in glory.

Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come

to have no glory at all because of the glory

that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to

an end came with glory, much more will what is

permanent have glory?

Since we have such a hope. We are very bold,

not like Moses, who had put a veil over his

face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the

outcome of what was being brought to an end.

But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when

they read the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted,

because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to

this day, whenever Moses has read, a veil lies over

their hearts.

But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit

of the Lord is there is freedom.

And we all, with.

Unveiled face beholding the glory of the Lord, are being

transformed into the same image, from one degree of glory

to another, For this comes from the Lord, who is

the Spirit second Corinthians four. Therefore, having this ministry, by

the mercy of God, we.

Do not lose heart.

But we have renounced disgraceful underhanded ways. We refuse to

practice cunning or to tamper with God's word. But by

the open statement of the truth, we would commend ourselves

to everyone's conscience in the sight of God. And even

if our gospel is veiled it is veiled only to

those who are perishing. In their case, the God of

this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers to

keep them from seeing the light of the Gospel of

the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

For what we proclaim is.

Not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as

your servants, for Jesus' sake.

For God, who said let light shine out of darkness,

has shown in our hearts to give the light of

the knowledge of the glory of God in the face

of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in jars

of clay to show that the surpassing power belongs to

God and not us.

We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed

but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsaken. It

struck down but not destroyed, always carrying in the body

the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus

may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who

live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake,

so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested

in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us,

but life in you.

Since we have the same spirit of faith. According to

what has been written, I believed, and so I spoke,

We also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that

he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also

with Jesus, and bring us with you into his presence.

For it is all for your sake, so that as

grace extends to more and more people, it may increase

thanksgiving to the glory of God. So we do not

lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our

inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light,

momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of

glory beyond all comparison. As we look not to the

things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen.

For the things that are seen or transient, but the

things that are unseen are eternal. Second Corinthians five. For

we know that if the tent that is our earthly

home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a

house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For

in this tent we groan, longing to put on our

heavenly dwelling. If indeed by putting it on, we may

not be found naked. For while we are still in

this tent, we grown being burdened, not that we would

be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so

that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

Hugh has prepared us for this very thing. Is God

who has given us the spirit as a guarantee. So

we are always of good courage. We know that while

we are at home in the body, we are away

from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather

be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

So whether we are at home or away, we make it.

Our aim to please Him, for we must all appear

before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one

may receive what is due for what he has done

in the body, whether good or evil.

Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others.

But what we are is known to God, and I

hope it is known also to your conscience. We are

not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you cause

to boast about us, so that you may be able

to answer those who boast about outward appearance, and not

about what is in the heart. For if we are

beside ourselves, it is for God. If we are in

our right mind, it is for you.

For the love of Christ controls us. Because we have

concluded this, that one has died for all. Therefore all

have died, and He died for all, that those who

live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him

who for their sake died and was raised. From now on,

Therefore we regard no one according to the flesh. Even

though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we

regard him thus no longer.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come.

All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us

to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

That is, in Christ, God was.

Reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them,

and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal

through us. We implore you, on behalf of Christ, be

reconciled to God for our sake. He made him to

be sin, who knew no sin, so that in him

we might become the righteousness of.

God second Corinthians six.

Working together with him. Then we appeal to you not

to receive the grace of God in vain, For he says,

in a favorable time I listen to you, and in

a day of salvation I have helped you.

Behold, now is the favorable time. Behold, now is the

day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone's way,

so that no fault may be found with our ministry.

But as servants of God, we commend ourselves in every

way by great endurance in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors,

sleepless nights, hunger, by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit,

genuine love, by true full speech, and the power of

God with the weapons of righteousness. For the right hand

and for the left. Through honor and dishonor through slander

and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true.

As unknown and yet well known.

As dying, and behold live as punished and yet not killed,

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many

rich as having nothing yet possessing everything. We have spoken

freely to you, Corinthians. Our heart is wide open.

You are not.

Restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.

In return, I speak as to children, widen your hearts. Also,

do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership

has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

What a cord has christ with belial? Or what portion

does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has

the temple of God with idolists?

For we are the temple of the Living God. As

God said, I will make my dwelling among them and

walk among them, and I will be their God, and

they shall be my people. Therefore, go out from their

midst and be separate from them, says the Lord, and

touch no unclean thing. Then I will welcome you, and

I will be a father to you, and you shall

be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.

Second Corinthians seven of it. Since we have these promises,

is Beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of

body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear

of God, make room in your hearts for us. We

have wronged no one, We have corrupted no one. We

have taken advantage of no one. I do not say

this to condemn you, for I said before that you

are in our hearts to die together and to live together.

I am acting with great.

Boldness toward you. I have great pride in you.

I am filled with comfort in all our affliction. I

am overflowing with joy. For even when we came into Macedonia,

our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at

every turn, fighting without and fear within. But God, who

comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

and not only by his coming, but also by the

comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he

told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me,

so that I rejoiced still more. For even if I

made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it,

though I did regret it, for I see that that

letter grieved you, though only for a while. As it is,

I rejoice not because you were grieved, but because you

were grieved into repenting, For you felt a godly grief,

so that you.

Suffered no loss through us, for.

Godly grief produces the repentance that leads to salvation without regret,

whereas worldly grief produces death. Foresee what earnestness this godly

grief has produced in you, But also what eagerness to

clear yourselves? What indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal,

what punishment? At every point you have proved yourselves innocent

in the matter. So although I wrote to you, it

was not for the sake of the one who did

the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who

suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for

us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.

Therefore we are comforted, And besides our own comfort, we

rejoice still more at the joy of Titus, because his

spirit has been refreshed by you.

All.

For whatever boasts I made to him about you, I

was not put to shame. But just as everything we

said to you is true, so also our boasting before

Titus has proved true.

And his affection for.

You is even greater, as he remembers the obedience of

you all how you received him with fear and trembling.

I rejoice because I have perfect confidence in you, tewod

Corinthians eight.

We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of

God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia.

For in a.

Severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their

extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on

their part.

For they gave according to their means, as I can testify,

and beyond their means, of their own accord, begging us

earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief

of the saints. And this not as we expected. But

they gave themselves first to the Lord, and then.

By the will of God to us.

Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started so,

he should complete among you this act of grace. But

as you excel in everything, in faith, in speech and knowledge,

in all earnestness, and in our love, for you see

that you excel in this act of grace. Also I

say this not as a command, but to prove by

the earnestness of others, that your love also is genuine.

For you know the.

Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich,

yet for your sake he became poor so that you,

by his poverty, might become rich. And in this matter

I give my judgment. This benefits you, who a year

ago started not only to do this work, but also

to desire to do it, so now finished doing it

as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may

be matched by your completing it out of what you have.

For if the.

Readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a

person has, not according to what he does not have.

For I do not mean that others.

Should be eased and you burdened, but that, as a

matter of fairness, your abundance at the present time should

supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need,

that there may be fairness. As it is written, whoever

gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little.

Had no lack.

But thanks be to God who put into the heart

of Titus the same earnest care I have for you,

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself

very earnest, he is going to you of his own accord.

With him, we are sending the brother who is famous

among all the churches for his preaching of the Gospel,

and not only that, but he has been appointed by

the churches to travel with us as we carry out

this act of grace that is being ministered by us,

for the glory of the Lord himself, and to show

our good will. We take this course so that no

one should blame us about this generous gift that is

being administered by us, For we aim at what is honorable,

not only in the Lord's sight, but also in the

sight of man.

And with them we are sending our brother, whom we

have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but

who is now more earnest than ever because of his

great confidence in you.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker

for you or benefit. And as for our brothers, they

are messengers of the churches the glory of Christ. So

give proof before the churches of your love and of

our boasting about you to these men Second Corinthians nine.

Now it is superfluous for me to write to you

about the ministry for the saints, for I know your readiness,

of which I boast about you to the people of Macedonia,

saying that Akeia has been ready since last year, and

your zeal has stirred up most of them. But I

am sending the brothers so that our boasting about you

may not prove empty in this matter, so that you

may be ready as I said you would be. Otherwise,

if some Macedonians come with me and find that you

are not ready, it would be humiliated to say nothing

of you for being so confident. So I thought it

necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to

you and arrange in advance for the gift you have promised,

so that it may be ready as a willing gift,

not as an exaction.

The point is this, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly,

and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one

must give as he has decided in his heart, not

reluctantly or under compulsion, For God loves a cheer forgiver,

and God is able to make all grace abound to you,

so that having all sufficiency in all things, at all times,

you may abound in every good work. As it is written,

he has distributed freely, he has given to the poor.

His righteousness endures forever.

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for

food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and

increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched

in every way to be generous in every way, which

through us will produce thanksgiving to God, for the ministry

of this service is not only supplying the needs of

the saints, but is also overflowing and many thanksgivings to God.

By their approval of this service, they will glorify God

because of your submission flowing from your confession of the

Gospel of Christ, and the generosity.

Of your contribution for them and for all others.

While they long for you and pray for you because

of the surpassing grace.

Of God upon you.

Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift. Second Corinthians ten,

I paul myself and treat you by the weakness and

gentleness of Christ, I who am humble when face to

face with you, but bold toward.

You when I am away.

I beg of you that when I am present, I

may not have to show boldness with such confidence as

I count on showing against some who suspect us of

walking according.

To the flesh.

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not

waging war according.

To the flesh.

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh,

but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments

and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God,

and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being ready

to punish every disobedience. When your obedience is complete, look

at what is before your eyes.

If anyone is confident that he is.

Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's,

so also are we. For even if I boast a

little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave

for building you up and not for destroying you, I

will not be ashamed. I do not want to appear

to be frightening you with my letters. For they say

his letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence

is weak, and his speech of no account. Let such

a person understand that what we say by letter when absent,

we do when present. Not that we dare to classify

or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves.

But when they measure themselves by one another and compare

themselves with one another, they are without understanding. But we

will not boast beyond limits, but will boast only with

regard to the area.

Of influence God assigned to us to.

Reach even to you. For we are not overextending ourselves

as though we did not reach you, for we were

the first to come all the way to you at

the Gospel of Christ. We do not boast beyond limit

in the labors of us. But our hope is that

as your faith increases, our area of influence among you

may be greatly enlarged, so that we may preach the

Gospel and lands beyond you without boasting of work already

done in another's area of influence.

Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord, for

it is not the one who commends himself was approved,

but the one whom the Lord.

Commends second Corinthians eleven. I wish you would bear with me,

and a little foolishness. Do bear with me, for I

feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you

to one husband.

To present you as a pure virgin to Christ. But

I am.

Afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning,

your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and

pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims

another Jesus than the one we proclaimed. Or if you

receive a different spirit from the one you received, or

if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted.

You put up with it readily enough.

Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least

inferior to these super apostles. Even if I am unskilled

in speaking, I am not so in knowledge. Indeed, in

every way, we have made this plain to you.

In all things.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so

that you might be exalted? Because I preached God's gospel

to you free of charge. I robbed other churches by

accepting support from them in order to serve you. And

when I was with you and was in need, I

did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from

Macedonia supplied my need. So I refrained and will refrain

from burdening you in any way. As the truth of

Christ is in me. This boasting of mine will not

be silenced in the regions of a KaiA. And why

because I do not love you, God knows I do,

and what I do I will continue to do in

order to undermine the claim of those who would like

to claim that in their boasted mission they work on

the same terms as we do.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves

as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan

disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is

no surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants

of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

I repeat, Let no one think me foolish, But even

if you do, accept me as a fool, so that

I too may boast a little what I am saying

with this boastful confidence, I say, not with the Lord's authority,

but as a fool. Since many boasts according to.

The flesh, I too will boast.

For you gladly bear it, fools, being wise yourselves, For

you bear it if someone makes slaves of you, or

devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs,

or strikes you in the face. To my shame, I

must say, we were too weak for that.

But whatever anyone else dares to boast of.

How I am speaking as a fool, I also dare

to boast of that. Are they Hebrews So am I

are they Israelites?

So am I?

Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I are they

servants of Christ?

I am a better one. I am talking like a madman.

With far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings

and often near death. Five times I received at the

hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three

times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three.

Times I was shipwrecked. A night and a day.

I was adrift at sea on frequent journeys, in danger

from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people,

danger from gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness,

danger at sea, danger.

From false brothers.

In toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in

hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.

And apart from other things, there is the daily pressure

on me of my anxiety for all the churches.

Who is weak and I am not weak? Who is

made to fall?

And I am not indignant? If I must boast, I

will boast of the things that show my weakness. The

God and Father of the Lord Jesus, he who is

blessed forever knows that I am not lying. At Damascus,

the governor under King Aretus was guarding the city of

Damascus in order to seize me. But I was let

down in a basket through a window in the wall,

and escaped his hands. Tewod Corinthians twelve. I must go

on boasting, though there is nothing to be gained by it.

I will go on to.

Visions and revelations of the Lord.

I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago

was caught up to the Third Heaven.

Whether in the body or out of the body, I

do not know.

God knows. And I know that this man was caught

up into paradise. Whether in the body or out of

the body, I do not know. God knows. And he

heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.

On behalf of this man, I will boast, but on

my own behalf. I will not boast, except of my weaknesses.

Though if I should wish to boast, I would not

be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth.

But I refrain from it so that no one may

think more of me than he sees in me or

hears from me. So to keep me from becoming conceited

because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations.

A thorn was.

Given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to

harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times

I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should

leave me, But he said to me, my grace is

sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.

Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses,

so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

For the sake of Christ. Then I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions,

and calamities.

For when I am weak, then I am strong. I

have been a fool.

You forced me to it, for I ought to have

been commended by you. For I was not at all

inferior to these super apostles, even though I am nothing.

The signs of a true apostle were performed among you

with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.

For in what were you less favored than the rest

of the churches, except that I myself did not burden you.

Forgive me this wrong. Here for the third time, I

am ready to come to you, and I will not

be a burden, for I seek not what is yours

but you. For children are not obligated to save up

for their parents, but parents for their children. I will

most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If

I love you more, am I to be loved less?

But granting that I myself did not burden you. I

was crafty, say, and got the better of you by deceit.

Did I take advantage of you through any of those

whom I sent to you? I urged Titus to go

and sent the brother with him. Did Titus take advantage

of you? Did we not act in the same spirit?

Did we not take the same steps?

Have you been thinking all along that we have been

defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of

God that we have been speaking in Christ and all

for your A building beloved. For I fear that perhaps

when I come, I may find you not as I wish,

and that you may find me not as you wish.

That perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit,

and disorder.

I fear that.

When I come again, my God may humble me before you,

and I may have to mourn over many of those

who sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity,

sexual imrales and sensuality that they have practiced. Second Corinthians thirteen.

This is the third time I am coming to you.

Every charge must be established by the evidence of two

or three witnesses. I warned those who sinned before and

all the others, And I warned them now while absent,

as I did when present on my second visit, that

if I come again, I will not spare them. Since

you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He

is not weak in dealing with you, but.

Is powerful among you.

For He was crucified in weakness, but lives by the

power of God. For we also are weak in him,

but in dealing with you, we will live with him

by the power of God. Examine yourselves to see whether

you are in the faith. Test yourselves or do you

not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you,

Unless indeed you fail to meet the test. I hope

you will find out that we have not failed the test.

But we pray to God that you may not do wrong.

Not that we may appear to have met the test,

but that you may do what is right, though we

may seem to have failed, for we cannot do anything

against the truth, but only for the truth. For we

are glad when we are weak and you are strong.

Your restoration is what we pray for.

For this reason I write these things while I am

away from you, that when I come, I may not

have to be severe in my use of the authority

that the Lord has given me for building up and

not for tearing down. Finally, brothers, rejoice, aim for restoration,

Comfort one another, agree with one another.

Live in peace, and the God of love and peace

will be with you.

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints

greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and

the Love of God and the fellowship of the Holy

Spirit be with you all